Dictionary of Music - Birding America

concerto grosso 89IMPORTANT CELLO CONCERTOSComposer Concerto DateLuigi Boccherini Concerto in B-flat c. 1745Johannes Brahms Concerto in A minor for violin and cello, op. 102 1887Benjamin Britten Cello Symphony 1963Elliot Carter Cello Concerto 2001Frederick Delius Concerto 1921Antonin Dvořák Concerto in B minor, op. 104 1895Edward Elgar Cello Concerto, op. 85 1919Alexander Glazunov Concerto-Ballata, op. 108 1931John Harbison Cello Concerto 1994Franz Joseph Haydn Concerto in D 1783Paul Hindemith Concerto no. 1 1940Concerto no. 2 1945Karel Husa Cello Concerto 1993Dmitri Kabalevsky Concerto 1949Aram Khatchaturian Concerto 1946Édouard Lalo Concerto 1876György Ligeti Cello Concerto 1966Witold Lutoslawski Concerto 1970Frank Martin Cello Concerto 1967Bohuslav Martinů Cello Concerto no. 2 1945Darius Milhaud Concerto no. 1 1935Concerto no. 2 1946Georg Matthias Monn Concerto in G minor c. 1745Krzysztof Penderecki Concerto no. 1 1971Concerto no. 2 1982Hans Pfitzner Concerto in G, op. 42 1935Sergey Prokofiev Concerto in E minor, op. 58 1938Concerto in E minor, op. 125 1952Camille Saint-Saëns Concerto no. 1 in A minor 1873Robert Schumann Concerto, op. 129 1850Dmitri Shostakovitch Concerto, op. 107 1959Concerto, op. 126 1966Heitor Villa-Lobos Cello Concerto no. 2 1955William Walton Cello Concerto 1956concerto grosso (kôn cher′ tô grôs′ sô) pl. concertigrossi (kôn cher′ tē grôs′ sē) Italian. Animportant type of instrumental composition of thebaroque period (1600–1750), in which a smallgroup of solo instruments, called the concertino,concertato, or concertante, alternates with the fullorchestra, called the tutti, ripieno, or concertogrosso. Most often the concertino consisted of twoviolins and a cello, accompanied by a basso continuopart (see CONTINUO) played on a keyboardinstrument, usually a harpsichord. However,numerous other combinations were used, includingsuch solo instruments as the trumpet, recorder,oboe, and flute. The tutti at first consisted only ofstringed instruments with their own harpsichord ororgan continuo, but toward the end of the baroqueperiod various wind instruments were included aswell.